Treasury of Scripture
A.M.
3177 B.C.
slew
2 Kings 8:20-22 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves...
2 Chronicles 25:11,12 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt...
the valley of salt Some suppose that the {Valley of Salt} was south of the Dead, or Salt Sea, towards the land of Edom; and others suppose it to be the Valley of Salt, about three or four miles south-east of Palmyra, which now supplies, in a great measure, the surrounding country with salt.
2 Samuel 8:13 And David got him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
1 Chronicles 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
Psalm 60:1 O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.
Selah. or, the rock.
Selah is generally supposed to be the same as Petra, which in Greek signifies a {rock}, the celebrated capital of Arabia Petreaea. Strabo places it three or four days' journey from Jericho, and five days' journey from the forest of palm trees on the Red Sea. Pliny places it
600 miles from Gaza, and
125 from the Persian Gulf; but Cellarius and Reland very justly consider that the numbers have been changed, and that we ought to read
125 miles from Gaza, and
600 from the Persian Gulf. Eusebius places Beerothbenajaakan
30 miles west from Petra, and Ellath ten miles east; and Burckhardt discovered the ruins of this ancient city in a valley called Wady Mousa.
Joktheel
Joshua 15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,